The New York Police Department is investigating a bias attack on two men who were the first gay couple to be married at West Point.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — Two South Texas men have been indicted on federal hate-crime charges for the March 2012 torture of a gay African-American man in Corpus Christi.
Philadelphia's incoming mayor and some organizers of the city's annual New Year's Day parade called for increased sensitivity on Saturday, a day after some participants mocked Caitlyn Jenner, were accused of harassing gays and painted their faces brown to portray Mexicans.
(CNN) -- Someone is posting stickers that say "exclusively for white people" on businesses in the Texas capital of Austin. And the mayor is not amused.
Fashion and irony clashed last weekend during a Confederate Flag rally in Georgia when a man with a Ku Klux Klan tattoo was spotted sporting a pair of shoes associated with hip-hop culture and African-American Pride, Raw Story reports.
Dwayne Johnson says he was disappointed when he heard about a tape of Hulk Hogan using racial slurs.
WASHINGTON - Republicans seeking their party's 2016 presidential nomination have the challenging task of trying to stand out among the 17 candidates in the race, and Thursday's televised debate was the first opportunity for the party to start whittling down its choices. So it's no surprise that the candidates had a vested interest in puffing up their own records as governors, senators and public figures. And some of them just got the facts wrong.
(WM) Comedian Randy Rainbow apologized for a series of decade-old racist and transphobic tweets Aug. 20, advising “there is not a racist or intolerant bone in my body.”
In a new video currently available for viewing on YouTube, gay dating app Jack'd claims that 37 percent of Americans identify as Black, Hispanic, Latino or Asian.
Marc Pourner, 28, of Spring, Texas, was found dead just north of Houston on Saturday night, Nov. 14, a little more than two days after he went missing.
(EDGE) A gay porn star took to Twitter over the weekend to publicly decline being nominated for the GayVN Awards, saying he's doing so because of "racism and bigotry" in the gay adult film industry.
SEATTLE (AP) — Nineteen groups led by the American Civil Liberties Union have sent a letter to the Walgreens drug store chain expressing concerns about the company's plans to have a Catholic hospital run in-store health clinics in Washington state and Oregon.
February 7 marks National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
As a gay man in his 40s, I have a long history with direct action protests for LGBT rights. I've earned my right to critique and criticize groups like GetEqual when I think their protests are misguided or unproductive. But do I have the same free reign to judge the Black Lives Matter protests? Or does my history of fighting for queer civil rights count for nothing with this new movement demanding racial justice?
An advertisement for a nursing position has created a storm of outrage over one of its job criteria - no Haitians.
(WB) Kamala Harris, accepting the nomination as vice-presidential candidate for the Democratic Party on Wednesday night, made denunciation of structural racism a cornerstone of her speech before the Democratic National Convention.
A Kansas legislator said Thursday that he regrets sharing a post on Facebook that mocked Hispanics who speak accented English to make a derogatory comment about President Barack Obama.
MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday gave a Kentucky county clerk room to continue denying marriage licenses to gays and lesbians while she takes her religious objections case to a higher court.
The owner of the home where Rosie O'Donnell's missing teen daughter was found earlier this week has been arrested for allegedly having inappropriate online communications with the 17-year-old girl, according to authorities and the star's spokeswoman.
BOSTON -- Victims of one of Mark Wahlberg's racially motivated attacks as a teenage delinquent in segregated Boston in the 1980s are divided over whether he should be granted a pardon for his crimes.
The racial tension at the heart of the protests that led two top University of Missouri administrators to resign intensified at the Columbia campus after the arrest of a white college student suspected of posting online threats to shoot black students and faculty.
RALEIGH, N.C. -- A county elections official in North Carolina will have a chance to defend himself Thursday as he faces removal over racially tinged Facebook posts praising the Confederacy and suggesting that black citizens who participated in protests against state policies weren't "productive good citizens" with jobs.
A Lane County judge has postponed the sex abuse trial of prominent gay rights activist Terry Bean to give investigators more time to track down the alleged 17-year-old victim, who has gone into hiding.
Broward County Democrats are divided by the recent firing of party office director, Michael R. Howson.
The campaign for GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump continued to take on an increasing racist tone Monday when during a rally in Las Vegas, a supporter of the billionaire's presidential bid shouted the Nazi-era salute "Sieg hell!" while a protester from the Black Lives Matter movement was taken away by security.
Following Sunday night's debut of the reality series "I am Cait" on E!, former child star Raven-Symoné, who currently is sharing co-hosting duties on "The View" expressed her opinion that Caitlyn Jenner is moving too fast in positioning herself as the go to advocate for transgender rights.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Four San Francisco police officers are under investigation in connection with racially charged and homophobic text messages, police officials said.
(SS) A Broward school district administrator has retired early after being accused by numerous employees of making racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic and sexually inappropriate remarks.
(CNN) -- It was confirmed Tuesday that actor Charlie Sheen has been living with HIV for more than four years and has paid "countless millions" to "unsavory" women to keep them from exposing his condition to the world.
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